Description: She wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with black lining and desert motifs. She is bristling with hidden weapons, mostly flails and shortbows. She wears a deerstalker hat to cover her moderate length black crest. Her eyes are gold and catlike.

Personality: She will use flattery and sarcasm to attack and weaken her opponents. Despite her formidable combat skills she remains a coward. She has a taste for the finer things and spends a great deal of money on luxuries, some more exotic than others.

History: She was born to a wealthy landowner in a frontier town, living a normal and happy childhood. Her father was very strict, and drilled into her lessons on being the perfect lady. After a long history of fighting, Farideh and her spouse have recently divorced.

Motivation: She is being blackmailed/forced/etc and this influences her actions; and she has comitted a past crime that haunts her to this day

Ideals: Fighting, Impeccable. Flaws: Antagonistic. Bonds: Criminal record, Rich. Occupation: Banker

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 70 gp. 3 Alchemist’s fire.

Description: A plain young-adult woman, she dresses in green turtlenecks beneath a black coat with violet slacks. She has done her best to style her red hair to look like a famous performer. Her half smiles and red eyes are beguiling and draw you in.

Personality: She likes to fabricate stories about her past exploits and how crazy she is, but in actuality she is rather bland. She takes great pride in her work and is very well organized. Her planner is full of calendar events.

History: Raised by wardens she was only a novice when gnolls swooped upon their monastery and killed most of the order. She was one of the best in her class, and was picked up by her current employer. She quickly showed her capability and was soon promoted to a head role. She inherited the family business which she has now maintained for 13 years.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs; and wants to open a new tavern

Flaws: Mundane. Bonds: Attractive, Job, Religious, Enemies. Occupation: Merchant

Voice: Soft and melodious

Possessions: 6000 cp. 1 Masterwork Uncommon Weapon.

Description: A 3'0" northern woman, she wears a suit in poor condition. It has not been laundered in sometime and has been worn in activities one would not normally wear a suit during. Her red hair is thinning but still full. She is baby faced.

Personality: She takes her job very seriously, in part because she fears she cannot get a new one. She receives visions of the future at random moments

History: A child with a great deal of poetry talent her parents made sure she got the chance to thrive. In her 20th year, while out on a day-trip, she returned to find her hometown burning and destroyed. She found her father impaled in their home, and her mother beheaded. She saw the woman who walked out, and charged her in a blind rage. The woman easily evaded and defeated her, leaving her to live broken and terrified. Lacking all sense, she decided to go on an adventure. She picked a direction and started trekking.

Motivation: She's looking for her big break.

Ideals: Gifted, Artistic. Flaws: Fearful. Bonds: Adventurer, Job. Occupation: Doctor

Voice: Stutters

Possessions: 7000 cp. Large well-done wool tapestry (300 gp).

Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she wears a grey vest and prefers red and pastel shirts. Her boots appear to have been at one point steel toed but are quite worn down. Her black hair is cut short. Her hazel eyes show the wear and tear of someone lonely with a great burden to carry.

Personality: She is enamored with her job. She loves it. She likes the challenge and she likes helping those less fortunate than her. She loves being with her children and actually smiles when they are around. She would do anything for them. She dislikes her ex a great deal.

History: She was raised in a desert tribe. She was part of a huge silver rush, which was taken over by a mining company. The company confiscated a lot of silver, but the shipment was lost. She has achieved small success as a Knight.

Motivation: She desires power and/or immortality; and marry her sister to traveling adventurers

Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Job, Family, Nature, Adventurer. Occupation: Knight

Voice: Middle-eastern accent

Possessions: 30 gp.

Description: This exceptionally lanky man is dressed in earthy colors with a grey and black handkerchief worn on his right side. His silver hair is heavily combed to the right. His fierce blue eyes like to dwell on things.

Personality: The man has a huge range of feeling. He will range from being happy and joking with the occasional self put down to crying stating how he will be a better person from this day on. He is a font of random trivia from the lore and stories he has discovered

History: Trained by his father for as long as he can remember he had it drilled in his head that it was his duty to serve his country. His childhood dream was to be a Interpreter, but he was a colossal failure. He ran away from his former home and has been making his living as a Mortician for the past few years.

Motivation: To share knowledge with the world; and he's attracted to the pc

Ideals: Logical. Flaws: Emotional. Bonds: Military, Job, Has a crush. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Tuts and clicks tongue

Possessions: 90 gp. Rhodochrosite (12 gp). 1 Masterwork Common Ranged Weapon.

Description: She stands about 6'2" and wears silk and lounges about seductively. Her right hand appears badly burned and disfigured. Her crest is short and scarlet. She has gleaming, smiling red eyes.

Personality: She is a very happy person and has lots of energy. To put it simply, she's a very lovable idiot. She has a habit of throwing herself into exceedingly dangerous situations.

History: A studious child she never was much for a social life, not because she was unlikable, but because she did not seek it out. From her teen years she was always beautiful and desirable, so people have always doted on her. She was granted divine powers by her dying brother.

Motivation: To prove her worth to the world; and she wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away

Ideals: Optimist, Gifted. Flaws: Impulsive. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Tanner

Voice: American accent

Possessions: 1300 sp.

Description: The dark-skinned man stands 4'0" and tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. His silver hair is greasy and uncared for. His hazel eyes have a joyful gleam in them most of the time.

Personality: He is highly sensitive about his name. He loathes it, but will not take any guff about it from anyone. He does not trust anyone and sleeps with one eye open.

History: Adrik was raised in a hard working conservative environment. He worked as a nervous Guard and found it very stressful. When he grew older, he became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. He began work as a mercenary for hire. He would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: A deep hatred of illithids; and he is unsatisfied with his job

Flaws: Ugly, Sensitive, Insomniac. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Enemies. Occupation: Guard

Voice: Strong lisp

Possessions: 1700 sp. Sardonyx (50 gp). Obsidian (15 gp).

Description: A pudgy man standing about 5'1" has a big stupid grin on his face most of the time. He wears a grey vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His brown leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his grey boots flare out at the collars. He has a very tight haircut. His eyes, though not visible through his cowl, are green.

Personality: He has two modes he varies between. On the job he is cold, steely and emotionless. Off the job he is a party animal. He cannot resist a sob story and will often dote over anyone who has one.

History: He was born the only child of a wealthy merchant. In his formative years he discovered how persuasive he was. He began using that to his advantage selling useless wares at inflated prices. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Expand his business; and he is not mentally stable, and does not behave rationally

Ideals: Philantrophist, Entrepeneur. Flaws: Insane. Bonds: Job, Rich. Occupation: Stableman

Voice: Russian accent

Possessions: 700 sp.

Description: He appears as an extremely gaunt Half-Orc, and stands approximately 6'5". He wears a fancy black suit, and his gloved hand is found clutching a warhammer. He sports a long silver beard, and similarly colored long hair. His green unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is intelligent and cunning, but he will too often allow his rage to get the better of him. He will lose his cool and rely on brute force to carry the day. He is submissive, is generally bored by everything, but will take part in whatever people ask of him. He is by nature obliging.

History: He was born to a pair of big game hunters, but was frequently ill as a child. In his youth he was a Cartwright, and wanted to be a champion fighter when he grew up. He was working during a period of war, and as one of the natives he lived in fear of joining the others in being slaughtered. He saw the brutality and swore off his fighting aspirations, taking his younger brother on his back after seeing his parents die, and fled the country. He hopes to save up enough money to one day pay a cleric to cure him.

Motivation: He's repulsed by the PC; and to fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever

Ideals: Fighting. Flaws: Disease, Antagonistic, Shy, PTSD. Bonds: Attractive. Occupation: Armorer

Voice: Mumbles to self between sentences

Possessions: 700 sp.